mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root

We split the LRU lists into anon and file, and we rebalance the scan
pressure between them when one of them begins thrashing: if the file cache
experiences workingset refaults, we increase the pressure on anonymous
pages; if the workload is stalled on swapins, we increase the pressure on
the file cache instead.

With cgroups and their nested LRU lists, we currently don't do this
correctly.  While recursive cgroup reclaim establishes a relative LRU
order among the pages of all involved cgroups, LRU pressure balancing is
done on an individual cgroup LRU level.  As a result, when one cgroup is
thrashing on the filesystem cache while a sibling may have cold anonymous
pages, pressure doesn't get equalized between them.

This patch moves LRU balancing decision to the root of reclaim - the same
level where the LRU order is established.

It does this by tracking LRU cost recursively, so that every level of the
cgroup tree knows the aggregate LRU cost of all memory within its domain.
When the page scanner calculates the scan balance for any given individual
cgroup's LRU list, it uses the values from the ancestor cgroup that
initiated the reclaim cycle.

If one sibling is then thrashing on the cache, it will tip the pressure
balance inside its ancestors, and the next hierarchical reclaim iteration
will go more after the anon pages in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520232525.798933-13-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 2dc7d392642f..4dff2123f695 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -282,11 +282,33 @@ void lru_note_cost(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, page_pgdat(page));
 
-	/* Record new data point */
-	if (page_is_file_lru(page))
-		lruvec->file_cost++;
-	else
-		lruvec->anon_cost++;
+	do {
+		unsigned long lrusize;
+
+		/* Record cost event */
+		if (page_is_file_lru(page))
+			lruvec->file_cost++;
+		else
+			lruvec->anon_cost++;
+
+		/*
+		 * Decay previous events
+		 *
+		 * Because workloads change over time (and to avoid
+		 * overflow) we keep these statistics as a floating
+		 * average, which ends up weighing recent refaults
+		 * more than old ones.
+		 */
+		lrusize = lruvec_page_state(lruvec, NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
+			  lruvec_page_state(lruvec, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
+			  lruvec_page_state(lruvec, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
+			  lruvec_page_state(lruvec, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
+
+		if (lruvec->file_cost + lruvec->anon_cost > lrusize / 4) {
+			lruvec->file_cost /= 2;
+			lruvec->anon_cost /= 2;
+		}
+	} while ((lruvec = parent_lruvec(lruvec)));
 }
 
 static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,